· Private foundation
James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $524k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $655k
- $250k+2 grants · $652k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $391,457 |
| SPCC FOUNDATION INC | $260,255 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF UNION COUNTY | $100,000 |
| SAFER COMMUNITIES MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| FEED MY LAMBS INC | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING UNION COUNTY | $75,000 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $73,822 |
| NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $51,611 |
| FOOD FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-UNION COUNTY CHAPTER | $45,000 |
| COMMON HEART | $40,000 |
| ARBORBROOK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| HEALTHQUEST OF UNION COUNTY | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +26%
- UCUNION-ANSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMA7× · 2017–2024 · $990k · revenue +29%
- CHCommunity Health Services of Union County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- SPSOUTH PEIDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $250k
- UCUnion County Community Arts Council Incone grant, 2019 · $201k · revenue -8% · 57% of their budget
- UAUNION ANSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $124k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
To show the love of christ to those experiencing financial crises through basic needs assistance.
Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
Provide total quality and accessible community oriented health care
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Arbor acres, an affiliate ministry of the united methodist church, serves senior adults through facilities and programs that enhance opportunity for security, contentment and life with meaning and purpose.
Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNION-ANSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMA ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Shelter ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHQUEST OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNION SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KATAWBA VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ANSON COUNTY HOMES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS REENTRY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Union County Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds NOVANT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WINGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANSON CRISIS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Effie Allen Little Foundation Inc · Yost Elizabeth B Tr Uwo · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Alice Smith Marsh Charitable Trust · Westport Fund · Smith Gen Wa Tr Uw - Item Xxii
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R and Bronnie L Braswell Trust George C Bower Jr Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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